PointBase
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software, Database management |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Founder | Bruce Scott, Jeff Richey, Daren Race |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California , United States |
| Products | PointBase Server Edition, PointBase Mobile Edition |
PointBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) implemented entirely in the Java programming language.
History
PointBase Inc. was established in 1998 by Bruce Scott, a co-founder of Oracle Corporation, along with Jeff Richey, formerly a Sybase architect, and Daren Race. Developed completely in Java, PointBase supported DCOM and CORBA protocols and was designed as an object–relational database to bridge internet technologies with database systems. Originally headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company later relocated to Mountain View. Similar to Java, PointBase aimed to serve portable device environments.
During the early 2000s, PointBase was distributed at no cost alongside the Java platform.
In 2003, DataMirror from Markham, Ontario, acquired PointBase. Subsequently, IBM purchased DataMirror in September 2007.
By 2012, the SQL engine of PointBase had been incorporated into Oracle's Oracle_WebLogic_Server platform.
Applications
PointBase is packaged with Oracle WebLogic Server, a Java EE application server. Its main use is for application design, development, and testing purposes rather than full-scale enterprise deployment. The evaluation license restricts the maximum database size to 30 MB.
Versions
- PointBase Server Edition
- PointBase Mobile Edition